• Earl Blaize

The future, when it comes to New York’s reunited convention-smashing hip-hop exponents Anti-Pop Consortium, is very much now. Returning with comeback album ‘Fluorescent Black’ after a hiatus dating back seven years, the time has come for them to show hip-hop how it’s done once more Around the turn of the Millennium, hip-hop as we knew it was being blown a new one via attacks on two left-leaning fronts. It was, many opined at the time and many more have prattled since, a simple reaction to the materialism of mainstream hip-hop, accused of losing sight of the art-form among clouds of cash as hip-hop began its ascent to the international bestseller of choice. The pop charts remained largely unscathed by the underground revolution, of course, but then commercial success wasn’t entirely the point. Still, true to hip-hop’s American seaboard-hugging traditions, both the east and west coasts were involved.Anti-Pop Consortium - 'Apparently' -Leading the latter’s charge were the likes of amorphous collective Anticon.

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Take a trip east and New York City was repped by, among others, Anti-Pop Consortium. With arrhythmic aplomb, their hyper-reality mic styles a la Ultramagnetic MCs’ loose cannon Kool Keith rolled over bleep-hop beats often closer to all-out experimental electronica than regular boom-bap. After banging out two albums proper (2000’s ‘Tragic Epilogue’ and 2002’s ‘Arrhythmia’) plus a handful of 12”s, EPs and the like with quickness, as with so many groundbreaking acts, their star burned bright before imploding.

Earl Blaize

Love from major players including Radiohead and DJ Shadow couldn’t stop the group’s split in 2002. It was, to quote their statement at the time, “an amicable dissolution”. Microsoft.visualstudio.ole.interop version 7.1. Now, seven years on, APC’s three emcees - Beans, High Priest and M Sayyid - sit in front of us in the homely South London headquarters of new label B.